(challenges) & hopes

Students at ID are encouraged to examine structures that obstruct the realization of equity and justice and to subvert them in their aspiration for a better future. Reflecting upon how design can be intertwined and implicated in these systems, students at ID develop aptitudes for co-design, self-reflection, and critical analysis of the power dynamics underlying their methods of practice.

 
Experiences, artifacts, tools and frameworks that support designers to create anti-oppressive interventions

Experiences, artifacts, tools and frameworks that support designers to create anti-oppressive interventions

Changing the measurements of success

Changing the measurements of success

Helping empower organizations in Chicago determine how they can implement the My Brother’s Keeper Action Plan

Helping empower organizations in Chicago determine how they can implement the My Brother’s Keeper Action Plan

Playful, hopeful explorations in national policy through a designerly and data-driven lens

Playful, hopeful explorations in national policy through a designerly and data-driven lens

Mapping the human stories of the Sunrise Movement, Chicago

Mapping the human stories of the Sunrise Movement, Chicago